No sign of MG's Great Northern Diver/Shag at Eastney in choppy high tide conditions but eleven Purple Sandpipers (some hunkered down and roosting in gaps in the brickwork), a single Sanderling and two Rock Pipits.
At PHP Pochards up to six and the seven Shovelers still nose-to-tailing in the lee of the island. A council guy was brush cutting near the holly clump so it was birdless, if fact fewer passerines than on any previous visit. A single bathing Med Gull (2cy) was the first I've seen there for a while. A Brown Rat was, not surprisingly, the only mammal!!
A Buzzard was low over the A3 and into a roadside tree by the QECP entrance slip on the return journry.
At Broadmarsh, despite good lighting little other than a Greenshank going upstream and 50+ Bar-tailed Godwits plus a few Knot well out.
Yesterday, a damp day at PB with Pete failing to locate either Hawfinch or Temminck's Stint. Five Golden Plover, ten each of Snipe and Dunlin and a smart male Marsh Harrier were the pick of the bunch. Some nice views of Treecreepers at various points on the trail.
Highlight, easily, was Sausage, Mash and Onion Gravy!!
